Stephanie W. ⚡️

View looking north from the Riviera Motel looking at the Lake Huron side of the Mackinac Bridge. // Image captured at: 2026-03-05 21:42:16 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@RivieraMotelMackinawCity // Current Temp in Mackinaw City: 36 F | 2 C // Precip: overcast clouds // Wind: E at 14 mph | 22 kph // Humidity: 83%

Current* conditions near Mackinaw City, MI:

A poem by my friend Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer, "Fact Checking"

IYKYK.

Student attendees talking to the poster presenter at the 106th Annual Meeting. Photo credit: Dee Zunker Photography.

Student members, did you know you can attend an AMS specialty meeting for free?

Apply for a travel grant to cover your travel expenses and registration fees for an opportunity to learn, connect, and collaborate at our meetings 🤩

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Quietly, calmly and forensically, BBC just dismantled the Trump communications shitshow on Iran.

No hyperbole, just laying out an unprecedented military, diplomatic and reputational shambles.

Worth a watch.

(🎥 BBC News/BBC Verify)

Who watches Jurassic Park and thinks, “What a great idea. We should try that!”?

This is AI in a nutshell: Somebody gets rich while the masses are rendered stupid

Quiet Christianity is Waking Up Growing Ideas at the Cottage

There is Good News: Quiet Christianity is Waking Up open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it:

Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

He’s a young, white, heterosexual male, which doesn’t hurt. He also speaks common sense with authority. His message that the “liberal vs conservative” conflict is an intentional diversion tactic to hide the real division (billionaires vs the rest of us) really resonates, too.

Jeepers, Ursula, that's on the nose.

This is a good analogy. Very useful in carefully controlled settings for specific usages, but unfortunately being widely inserted into everything and used without training or PPE and poisoning a lot of things and people and we’re going to pay a tonne of money to remove it safely in the future

For perspective, that increase was AN ENTIRE YEAR OF FEDERAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDING.

(But we can’t afford NCAR…)

Somehow this didn’t post this morning. Happy 189th birthday to Chicago.

I am going to make the radical statement that Crockett and Talerico were both great candidates who both ran positive campaigns that excited many people who turned out to vote, and this is a good thing. In fact, this is what should happen regularly.

Happy 189th Birthday, Chicago!

Oklahoma legislature advances bill that would remove tenure at OU, public universities The Oklahoma legislature advanced a bill Tuesday that would remove the possibility of tenure for OU faculty, limit contract agreements to five years and require each state institute for higher

“Abolishing tenure cripples scientific & creative research...

This sends a strong message that top-tier academics seeking employment at Oklahoma universities should look elsewhere immediately. Why pursue a job here under such a repressive climate?”

— Michael Givel, OU AAUP President

I have reached “having back spasms” years old.

James Talarico: Are you aware that this bill removes the writings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.?

Republican: Yes

Talarico: Yet this bill still includes the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, and he's not even an American. Could that be because he's a white man?

Republican: N-not exactly…

This is a graph of the death of US science.

In NYC?

WTF did I do to my back yesterday? Thank goodness I carry Motrin in my purse. #OldLadySkeet

NE view from Sodus Lighthouse overlooking Sodus Point Passage and Lake Ontario. // Image captured at: 2026-02-27 12:00:11 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: youtube.com/@News8WROC // Current Temp in Sodus Point: 11 F | -12 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: N at 0 mph | 0 kph // Humidity: 92%

Current* conditions near Sodus Point, NY:

I am so angry about the "AI literacy" branding. If refusing to engage with the plagiarism/brain smoothing/sycophancy device means I'm illiterate, I guess I'll have to console myself with the real books I *can* read

That I can have opinions and be a great bossy leading woman and find a man who will play it up for the public but stand beside me on everything forever

A wall full of mugs arranged in such a way that it looks like the mugs are repeating themselves, creating an uncomfortable illusion

Woe, wall of astigmatism be upon ye

Help Kelly Pannek

This one is for a REAL need and imma hopeful that an auto company gonna step up. KELLY PANNEK from the women’s hockey team got hits by someone who totaled her car. She needs a new car.

Lots of brands commenting that they want to help,, but few truly stepping up. Who can help,??

Is this the cover for @kkdumez.bsky.social's new book? 🧐

My condolences to your family.

She Got Game weekend. July 16-19. Las Vegas.

She Got Game weekend. July 16-19. Viva Las Vegas.